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Windows Breaks Into Supercomputer Top 10

Posted by timothy on from the adversity-breeds-strength-in-redmond-too dept.

yanx0016 writes "Wow, that's some news this week at SuperComputing 08. Apparently Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, with a Chinese hardware OEM (Dawning), made #10 on the Top500 list, edging out #11 by only 600 Gflops. Folks were shocked to see Microsoft getting so serious around HPC; I think we are only beginning to see a glimpse of Microsoft in the HPC field."

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  1. All I read was "Windows Breaks"... by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and I thought "hey, that's not news. I've known that for years!"

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  2. Helping power the Great Firewall of China! by crt · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the Dawning site:

    Arming the "Golden Shield" project with comprehensive IT technology
    With the rapid development of the Internet, the public security information construction has become an important component of national information construction. Dawning made contributions in improving information technology level within all of the public security departments, arming the "Golden Shield" project with information technology, equipping the "police" force with digitalization, intensifying the police by technology and comprehensively raising China public security's law enforcement and administrative capacity.

    I like how they quote "police" force.

  3. McColo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shortly after coming online, they noticed that it broke a speed record downloading "instructions" from abilena.podolsk-mo.ru

  4. You get so excited about your new supercomputer... by monktus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then all you get is, "It looks like you're decoding the human genome. Would you like some help?"

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  5. No doubt HPC will be a requirement... by ivanmarsh · · Score: 4, Funny

    to run Windows 7.

  6. Hopefully, HP will like this by doublegauss · · Score: 5, Funny

    For once, a computer that deserves the "Vista capable" sticker.

  7. Obligatory by westbake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you imagine a botnet of those?

    I can.

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    1. Re:Obligatory by andy_t_roo · · Score: 4, Funny

      actually,
          40% Funny
          30% Insightful
          20% Overrated

      -- i agree with about 20% of people, a botnet run with windows would be overrated compared to one run off another system, its just quicker to build a windows one.

  8. Re:i must by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But does it run Linux?

  9. Re:Yeah, mut how much useful stuff is happening? by geekmux · · Score: 5, Funny

    FLOPS and MIPS are all very well, but if the OS is pissing them away then it does not matter much.

    (Interviewing MS HPC Program Manager)

    "Well, yeah it does stuff! Just look. You've got it all right here...Word, Excel, even Access. And just wait until you see how fast the cards fly when you win Solitaire!"

  10. Re:Retarded by trb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Honestly, why would anyone want to roll-out something like this on Windows.

    Did you ever see the hippos doing the Dance of the Hours in Disney's Fantasia? It's like that.

  11. Re:Penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they measure the performance with or without effect of antivirus software?

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